icehawk219

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by icehawk219 3y ago
I had this exact same reaction less than a week ago and it prompted me to switch to Thunderbird. For years I've fallen into the "if not for gaming ..." camp of Windows users. But I'm getting closer and closer to just not
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by icehawk219 8y ago
Waiting that long before the merchant gets their money is a feature, not a bug. It forces the merchant to float a balance that can be used to issue refunds and charge backs back to the consumer without the bank, card network, or consumer ta
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by icehawk219 9y ago
I haven't used Blue Apron but used one of their competitors and you'd get the ingredients like this but they'd also be in a big styrofoam container (to help insulate against the elements). The other problem was if you had 2 r
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by icehawk219 9y ago
The spend/build-out is even bigger than that because if these cars have no driver how to they refuel? Unless they've got a robot arm capable of doing that themselves they still need a human involved. As well as somewhere to do rep
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by icehawk219 10y ago
You joke but I know plenty of self professed libertarians who want nothing more than to see those very services privatized. I know someone who genuinely believes a privatized police force would be the end of police violence because "th
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I've used weather.gov for years and love the service. Every person I've talked to who complains about the crap coverage by the weather companies in the US that I've shown it to uses it exclusively as well. It's a perfect
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I'm currently working on a product with a team and we did a bit of exploration for an idea for SMB's and had that same issue. We were talking to someone who on the surface would be a perfect fit for the product but then we asked h
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Maybe they're including Win 8.1? In that case it is 3 generations. Although Win 8.1 was an update to 8 so you could argue whether or not it should be included but lots of version lists list it separately.
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by icehawk219 10y ago
People absolutely are tools in the eyes of their employers. I've never been at a company and not heard them refer to employees as "resources" when talking about scheduling and allocation of people. There's nothing specia
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Misuse of the word "hacking" has been a plague for a while now. Setting your alarm clock is now a "life hack". Not stuffing your face is a "health/wellness hack". Balancing your checkbook is a "person
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Something I find interesting about this: what does it mean for countries who monitor and filter/block content (think China)? Presumably since this isn't using their national infrastructure they would lose all control of it, no? I
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Same story here. At my previous job when they rolled out the open office a bunch of us complained and the boss explained how he'd be giving up his office to work out on the floor with us. Not even joking, less than an hour after he mov
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by icehawk219 10y ago
One that I've seen is plugging something into the audio jack, and then breaking it off and taping over it. That way the computer will detect something is plugged in and turn off the mic. Of course this won't be possible once Apple
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I like this idea as much as I like some of the others I've heard over the years. I was a daily NJ Transit commuter for almost 8 years but am now down to twice a week. Upgrades to Penn Station are as needed as are upgrades to the rest o
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by icehawk219 10y ago
To be honest I'm less concerned with nefarious governments, since they already have countless ways to track you and kill you if they really want to. And for the most part these days they don't even have to be discrete about it bec
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Part of the problem is that the last few generations have been told the same thing: blue collar jobs aren't "good" jobs. You need to go to college so you can get a "good" job sitting at a desk because those other jo
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I'm using Heroku right now and have thought about switching to EC2 as it would save me a bit of money. But the reason I haven't is simply time. Heroku's Pipelines feature, integrated with GitHub, means I get review apps and a
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by icehawk219 10y ago
In my limited experience working on teams that were flat what happened every time is a sort of unofficial structure formed. Experts, and senior staff, just sort of became the go-to people. As new folks were hired they'd see that certai
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Quite the opposite. Our government at least appears to work very hard to make sure these attack venues remain wide open.
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I've basically stopped using the word startup because at this point it seems to apply primarily to companies that only care about vanity metrics and nothing else. The word has been hijacked by investors and founders who want companies
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by icehawk219 10y ago
For the past 10 months or so I've been part of a 3 person team that is bootstrapping. I can't count how many times I've been looked at like I have two heads when I tell someone that no we don't have funding, and we aren&
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I was just lamenting this recently. GitLab's latest features are really nice but the lack of integration with things like Heroku's Pipelines makes switching more costly because I'd have to setup that type of functionality mys
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I've seen quite a few large streamers getting paid to switch off Discord and promote Curse's chat client. If anything that's probably what Twitch is after but I'd be curious why they didn't pick up Discord then sinc
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by icehawk219 10y ago
Is this not the natural conclusion of the trend that started with ad supported sites/services though? I use an adblocker because most sites require one in order to be usable but do whitelist sites I like and use frequently. The problem
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by icehawk219 10y ago
This is my problem with carrier groups. Today the Navy doesn't really need to worry about battles because they're already so big that no one can compete but also because that's just not what they do day-to-day. As far as I ca
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I believe this is what the security canary used to be that companies would use to skirt the rules until the rules were changed. It used to be that you couldn't say how many you received but you could say you hadn't received any. N
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by icehawk219 10y ago
I agree with this but one other side affect of lowering the barrier to entry (which is a good thing I completely support) is it also makes it easier for people who genuinely don't care about that to get into the game. I've met so
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by icehawk219 10y ago
“People will give up their privacy to get something they want,” he said. And there in lies the problem I have with this. The sad thing is that a large percentage of people would give up their privacy because the old "if you have noth
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by icehawk219 10y ago
From my experience with front-end dev's it's not that they don't test in Firefox but rather they only test in Chrome. I've worked with FE devs who insisted it was unreasonable to expect them to test in all the major brow
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by icehawk219 10y ago
For things like coal and oil the cost is in acquisition, transportation, and storage of the fuel and the infrastructure that goes with that. You can't just go out and find coal lying around. You need to hallow out or level an entire mo

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